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Melissa Rose Bernardo

April 19, 2026 8:00 pm

Fallen Angels: Here’s to Women Behaving Badly

Fallen Angels

★★★★☆ Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara are riotously funny in Noël Coward’s 101-year-old buddy comedy

April 7, 2026 9:00 pm

Cats: The Jellicle Ball: A Disco-Tastic Revival of Lloyd Webber’s Musical

Cats the Jellicle Ball ensemble

★★★★★ You’ll be feline good after this ultra-glam Broadway-meets-ballroom production

March 29, 2026 9:00 pm

Titus Andronicus: Goths, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Spears

Titus Andronicus

★★★☆☆ Shakespeare’s bloodiest play gets a fittingly messy off-Broadway revival starring the unimpeachable Patrick Page

February 23, 2026 9:00 pm

Mother Russia: Finding Comedy in a Country’s Dark History

Mother Russia

★★★★☆ The collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of capitalism prove excellent fodder for Lauren Yee’s sharp new play

February 5, 2026 5:41 pm

High Spirits: Death Becomes Them

★★★★☆ Sip and savor (but don’t think too hard about) this 1964 musicalization of Noël Coward’s famous 1941 farce

January 15, 2026 9:02 pm

The Disappear: Art Isn’t Easy

The Disappear

★★★☆☆ Erica Schmidt’s world premiere dramedy skewers a self-absorbed filmmaker and the people who love him

December 14, 2025 4:30 pm

Anna Christie: The Sea-Themed Drama Docks at the Brooklyn Waterfront

Anna Christie

★★★☆☆ Michelle Williams plays a hooker with a heart of coal in Eugene O’Neill’s 1921 drama

December 8, 2025 9:29 pm

Marjorie Prime: A Very Real Exploration of Memory and Loss, Powered by AI

Marjorie Prime

★★★★★ A superb cast of four anchors Jordan Harrison’s future-set drama

November 23, 2025 4:00 pm

Gruesome Playground Injuries: Not All Wounds Are On the Outside

Gruesome Playground Injuries

★★★★☆ Nicholas Braun and Kara Young play childhood friends reckoning with a lifetime of hurt

November 18, 2025 10:29 pm

This World of Tomorrow: Go for Tom Hanks, Stay for Kelli O’Hara

Tom Hanks This World

★★★☆☆ Kenny Leon directs a 150-year-spanning sci-fi-tinged New York play

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